Quotes by : Thomas McGuane

After fifty years of living it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to....

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.....

They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises,....

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw....

Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote....

It's funny but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune and you never know when it will befall....

Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this but what was the use. No one was going....

My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense....

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.